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Rogue NASA

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This is how you shift your schedule to land humans on the Mars and beat whoever the Big Bad is in this new space race with the Moon nuke or whatever we’re doing now

If you want the Moon nuke in 4 years, why do this? I’m ambivalent wrt the Moon nuke - there are pros & cons. This is just dumb tho

January 6, 2026 at 11:48 AM

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Shea (she/her)

@solarshea.bsky.social

A good summary of today's Minibus Package from #Congress #Appropriations (both sides) includes for #NASA. I have not had time to parse the Minibus myself as of yet, but will provide additional detail, particularly in terms of #heliophysics impacts, in a follow up post.

spacenews.com/minibus-prov...

Minibus provides $24.4 billion for NASA for fiscal year 2026

House and Senate appropriators have released the text of a spending bill that largely rejects the steep cuts the Trump administration proposed for NASA.

spacenews.com

January 6, 2026 at 1:31 AM

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The Daily Show

@thedailyshow.com

Arizona Senator Mark Kelly (@captmarkkelly.bsky.social) and Jon Stewart dissect Pete Hegseth's "sedition" accusation against the retired Navy captain and how it speaks to the fragile egos of the Trump administration

January 6, 2026 at 2:58 AM

Rogue NASA

@roguenasa.altgov.info

On @thedailyshow.com with tonight - @captmarkkelly.bsky.social is 🔥🔥🔥!!!!

Great job CDR!! 😉 🚀🚀🚀

an astronaut with the word iota on his back is riding a rocket

Alt: an astronaut is riding a rocket

media.tenor.com

January 6, 2026 at 4:50 AM

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ESA Space Science

@science.esa.int

📣 Scientists using Hubble have uncovered a new type of astronomical object!

This starless, dark-matter-dominated cloud is a relic from the early Universe, a failed galaxy.

Read more 👉 https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cloud-9_a_new_celestial_object_found_by_Hubble

🔭 🧪

A region of space mostly filled with background galaxies, with one prominent star at upper left. A large blob of purple haze occupies much of the field. Within the purple region, an unremarkable area is outlined with a dashed white circle.

January 5, 2026 at 5:15 PM

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#TeslaTakedown

@teslatakedown.com

Elon is GLEEFULLY enabling the exploitation of children and the harassment and abuse of women. It's clear that Musk is behind the constant push to make Grok an increasingly disgusting vector for this kind of behavior. If elected leaders won't hold him accountable, we will. #TeslaTakedown

Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 29d

Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead

Ashley St. Clair
@stclairashley
Just saw a photo that Grok produced of a child no older than four years old in which it took off her dress, put her in a bikini + added what is intended to be semen. ChatGPT does not do this. Gemini does not do this.

Another girl who appears to be just 11 or 12 with a brain tumor, Grok removed her shirt completely.

Stating that the people producing the prompts are the only ones responsible puts an undue burden on victims, most of which have no idea this is happening. This problem + exploitation of children could be fixed in a matter of minutes by the MechaHitler team.

January 5, 2026 at 5:13 PM

Rogue NASA

@roguenasa.altgov.info

🚀🙌🏾🚀🙌🏼🚀

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 28d

Mark Kelly blasts Hegseth attempting to lower his military rank and pension. Saying "If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn’t get it."

“Over twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution — including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that.

“My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays. I commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife Gabby recovered from a gunshot wound to the head — all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder. Generations of servicemembers have made these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation, and rank they deserve.

“Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that.

“If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn’t get it. I will fight this with everything I’ve got — not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don’t get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government.”

January 5, 2026 at 5:11 PM

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Owen Jones

@owenjones.bsky.social

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.

The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

January 5, 2026 at 1:19 PM

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Union of Concerned Scientists

@ucs.org

Funding cuts to critical research, staff reductions at agencies, political interference & disinformation are eroding public trust in decades of peer-reviewed science. How can we respond to this challenging moment? Here's some inspiration by Allie Cashel from @protectdemocracy.org.

How the Scientific Community Can Defend Itself — and Our Democracy

Science is not an apolitical enterprise sealed off from society; it is an independent one, and fiercely so.

blog.ucs.org

January 5, 2026 at 5:06 PM

Rogue NASA

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December 19, 2025 at 6:33 AM

Rogue NASA

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December 19, 2025 at 6:12 AM

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Shea (she/her)

@solarshea.bsky.social

Looking for Public Policy and Advocacy actions?

‼️ STAND UP FOR @ncar-ucar.bsky.social ‼️

The @agu.org has simple action items you can take to show your support and make a difference.

#SaveScience
Please share this widely. If you've got weather, you should care.

agu.quorum.us/home/

AGU Science Policy Action Center

See what policy issues the AGU community is talking about

agu.quorum.us

December 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM

Rogue NASA

@roguenasa.altgov.info

Check out our #nasa Citizen Science programs!! 🚀

Help NASA with dozens of projects - from spotting asteroids to searching for planets beyond our solar system, and more, there are projects for everyone!

Do you already participate? Tell us about it! 🔭🧪📡🛰️

science.nasa.gov/citizen-scie...

Citizen Science - NASA Science

Join NASA researchers and discover the secrets of the universe, search for life elsewhere, and protect and improve life on Earth and in space.

science.nasa.gov

December 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM

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Shea (she/her)

@solarshea.bsky.social

‼️HEADS UP‼️
Especially to friends at #NASA #Goddard

Among other looming closures at #gsfc, the Goddard gym is closing on Dec. 31st -- even though it is in the charter that y'all must have health and fitness centers.

@roguenasa.altgov.info @altnasa.bsky.social

December 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM

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Shea (she/her)

@solarshea.bsky.social

This article is an extremely well presented discussion about the current funding challenges for science and medicine in the US. Highly recommend.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

@nytimes.com
#FundScience #publicpolicy

@altnih4science.bsky.social
@roguenasa.altgov.info
@roguenoaa.altgov.info

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)

A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

www.nytimes.com

December 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM

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Shea (she/her)

@solarshea.bsky.social

Thank you, @lofgren.house.gov , for your continued support of #NASA and NASA science!!!

@roguenasa.altgov.info

Shea (she/her) @solarshea.bsky.social · Dec 3

@lofgren.house.gov, ranking member of the House Science, Space & Technology Committee, sent a follow-on letter to #NASA about the audit of Goddard's planned closures/relocations. It contains the schedule for “consolidation” activities at the main #gsfc campus.

lofgren.house.gov/media/press-...

December 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM

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Anne Pisor

@annepisor.bsky.social

It's been a rough year for #federalworkers.

But here's what most people don't see: workers are building remarkably resilient networks of mutual support 🤝

In @us.theconversation.com, federal workers share their stories with me... 👇🏻

A hard year for federal workers offers a real-time lesson in resilience

During a year of extraordinary uncertainty, workers built resilient networks within and across boundaries and distance. An anthropologist explains how these clusters and long-distance ties help people...

theconversation.com

December 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM

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Shea (she/her)

@solarshea.bsky.social

📢Another bit of news for #NASA #Goddard folks.

Multiple contacts report that #GSFC library is closing down, keeping only ~10% of the books and artifacts. No plan for the other 90%? Originally scheduled to shutdown on Dec 9 -- now delayed (new date unknown)

@roguenasa.altgov.info #SaveLibraries

Michael Sheetz @michaelsheetz.bsky.social · Dec 3

NASA is closing its Libraries, including at HQ and multiple centers, "with at least 5 librarians losing their positions:"

December 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM

Rogue NASA

@roguenasa.altgov.info

👇🏿👇🏾👇🏽👇🏼👇🏻

People For the American Way @peoplefor.bsky.social · Dec 2

You ready, Tennessee? #PollsAreOpen #TN07

December 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM

Rogue NASA

@roguenasa.altgov.info

December 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM

Rogue NASA

@roguenasa.altgov.info

They had no reason to be deployed to DC.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Nov 28

Except that’s what everyone on the right was doing before we learned it was the Trump admin that granted him asylum - and most are still doing it. If only Republicans would blame the shooters more often instead of trying to use deranged acts by individuals for political gain.

November 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM

Rogue NASA

@roguenasa.altgov.info

Can confirm. Keep getting pretty great papers. All hail the Global Tetrahedron! 🫡 🧅

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Nov 28

Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.

We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.

Our members keep getting papers.

Hey there Onion members,

This is Ben Collins, CEO of America’s Finest News Source™.

I am writing today, as we have arrived at a precipice in American life, to thank you.

Our government is employing masked oafs to kidnap our neighbors, ziptie our children, and play Call of Duty: Burger King Edition in several American cities. The White House, otherwise occupied with taping an episode of HGTV’s “Help I Wrecked My House,” is hellbent on politically mandated starvation of the indigent. Worst of all, America’s airwaves have been taken over by dull throbbing moans only recently identified by scientists as something known as “Morgan Wallen.”

In short, it is not a good time out there, and our captured media has been too scared to call that out.

But, because of you, none of that is true at The Onion. For reasons we don’t like or understand, our work has become increasingly important.

You and your contribution over the last year have allowed The Onion to thrive in this precarious moment — to take risks and to say sentences mere moments before those thoughts become criminalized.

We need your help in the next year to bolster that fight as things get precipitously worse.

Because of your support, The Onion is now the 11th-most distributed newspaper in the United States, sandwiched between The Boston Globe and The Chicago Tribune. In the next year, our goal is to crack the top 10, and to surpass the circulation of the propaganda project of a notorious space pervert, Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post.

We’re confident we can reach this goal with your help. Unlike other publications, which all appear to have a fetish for caving to an increasingly maniacal and unpopular authoritarian government, The Onion remains unafraid to print the truth, straightforwardly and without favor.

Due to your patronage in the last year, we have:
Published 13 newspapers since the relaunch of our print edition in September of 2024. Over the summer, by popular demand, we increased the size of the paper by half.
Took out a full-page advertisement in the New York Times “calling upon lawmakers in Congress to sit back and do absolutely nothing,” then sent this op-ed to every member of the House and Senate and all 54,000 of our subscribers. Thankfully, they took our advice, and now people are starving.
Drove the Onion Newsvan in front of protests and ICE detention centers, blaring headlines about ICE’s one true love: teargassing elementary schools.
Released Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile in over 40 cities across North America and later on YouTube, and let independent theatres keep the ticket sales. It’s still unclear if we can write this off.

And, a year ago this week, we successfully bid on InfoWars at a bankruptcy auction, before the judgment was overturned by a judge for — and I’m paraphrasing here — being too cool.

Yes, despite a legal bill that rivals the GDP of West Virginia, we are continuing work to acquire InfoWars and evolve it into an galactically sized depot of lies, scams, and miracle cures for all of the world’s awesome new and untracked illnesses. The Supreme Court — yes, this Supreme Court — denied Alex Jones’ appeal just last month, a last gasp at evading justice, and we’re hoping this clears a path to reinventing the dumbest site on the internet very soon.

So ahead of this holiday season, please consider subscribing to The Onion for yourself, your friends, your parents, or your infant. People love getting something great in the mail every month amidst their requisite bills and death threats.

Look, we’re an independent company, we don’t use AI to write headlines and make art, and we’re one of roughly three publications who are up for the fight. Unlike other places, The Onion is quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically.

Are you?

If so, I hope you’ll continue to be an Onion member, get the paper, and help us deliver ulcers to those who deserve it.

Thank you, and Tu Stultus Es,
Ben Collins
CEO | The Onion

November 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM

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Nancy Levine Stearns

@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social

🧵 Lowe's CEO, one of 8 Black Fortune 500 CEOs, stands firm on DEI.

"Championing Diversity Through Action: Ellison’s approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is rooted in practical change rather than public statements"

Home Depot, meanwhile, allows ICE agents to raid its parking lots.